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What’s in your bag, Kovacs?

The 25-year-old Dutch singer produces a beautifully dark and soulful sound – as every single number on her debut album Shades of Black reveals. She opened her case at Hamburg Airport and let Lufthansa Magazin take a peek inside

1 Hard diskThis is where I keep the video with which I open my shows. I recorded it at a tiny cabaret café in Berlin: lots of shadows, very old school.

2 Lip glossI travel a lot and don’t normally wear much makeup. This pink gloss is perfect because it gives me back a touch of color after a long flight.

3 NotebookEverything that’s important to me is in here: ideas for new songs, lists of things I need to do. Losing it would be a disaster.